The head of a top Qatari government agency admitted this week to “between 400 and 500” worker deaths during the construction of facilities for the FIFA World Cup — a much larger figure than the 40 the Islamist regime had admitted to in the past.
Qatar’s migrant worker system has triggered global concern and condemnation since FIFA announced that the nation would host its top tournament. Under the now-defunctsystem, construction companies and other companies essentially controlled a migrant worker’s passport, holding them hostage in Qatar and requiring employer permission to find a new employer or leave the country.
“The estimate is around 400, between 400 and 500,” the official, Hassan al-Thawadi, said when asked directly about worker deaths. “I don’t have the exact number. That’s something that’s been discussed.”The French newspaper, alongside the Associated Press, noted that Doha had previously admitted only to 40 deaths tied to World Cup facilities between 2014 and 2021 — and documented them in ways that exonerated employers, citing heart attacks and Chinese coronavirus among the causes.
The Qatari official’s estimated death toll is significantly smaller than others compiled by journalists and human rights groups. Last year, the British newspaper thebased on publicly available Qatari government data that as many as 6,500 workers from South Asia had died in the decade following FIFA awarding hosting rights to the country.
“The findings, compiled from government sources, mean an average of 12 migrant workers from these five south Asian nations have died each week since the night in December 2010 when the streets of Doha were filled with ecstatic crowds celebrating Qatar’s victory,” the newspaper observed at the time.an astounding 15,021 migrant worker deaths associated with the FIFA World Cup in Qatar.
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